Monday, February 08, 2016

LOST BABY

If you've read my in-progress on-line autobio, you'll understand why I am startled by today's encounter with this
particular book and the particular sentence on the page I opened. The News from Paraguay by Lily Tuck, p.206: "Too late she realized she wanted to keep the baby."

TOO LATE SHE REALIZED SHE WANTED TO KEEP THE BABY

Now this is really weird, how could you know these things are seared in my heart and in my hand a lost baby, a lost land?

Could this be the fourth dimension where such deeply buried tensions are revealed by random choices, unifying disparate voices?

Mind blank, eyes shut, open a book at any page and sitting there in a word cage some kind of message waits for me its coded meaning to set free.